The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-28

:. me state must be taken out Of the hands az
~ poiucians or they will sink nto stIl
greater depths OF degradation.
hieonier Leader: The House committee has
in anv &C., STATE OF affairs never before equaled
i:.y c'a,e LOT corruption. thevery and GRIM
'"aiy ID the management Of State prison.
~ Halem Leader: The people are not divided in
49,. op1nion OF the southern prison manage
.hent. 1t is universally condemned. and is
'e ie"uing SUBJECT OF conversation everywhere
oorydon Republican: The investigation of the
a.e insane Asylum by the House committee
reveals as rotten or worse state NJ affa;rc tben
prison. - sAe eousnei"
brazil Register: The work of turning the ras-
cars out mas reached to Warden Howard of the
sousn .. penltentiary Let the good work ex-
sono e'i Dr Harrison is relieved by a worthy
successor
franklin Republican: AS the light Of nvesti-
Eating committees is turned on the Campaign
.,es or last fall growing in magnitude but
we democratic press is not glib at mailing
them as it was.
lnvestigaton is developing scoundresm and
rascanty on the part of the trustees almost be-
yono belief The revelations at the southern
prison are rfuL
LoganspS4t Journal In the midst of the rock
ing OF the Insane Hospital earthquake, Mag
uhder the wing of Sim Coy, in the Office Of
clerk OF Marion county.
Greensburg Review: Should those who have
been under Warden Towards training at the
southern prison be released and follow after the
| example laid before them by Howard, the State
will indeed be in danger.
| Columbia City Commercial: ANY party that
would permit and try to cover up such infamy
| as has been practiced by the Democratic mana
gers OF the benevolent and penal institutions Of
! the State should be eternaliy damned.
| Lawrenceburg Press: 1t is not improbable
tnat Howard will - put into his own prison.
The whole affair, both in the asylum and the
| prison. is a disgrace to the State and the facts
| more than sustain the charges made in the last
| campaign.
Richmond Palladium: Not at the bottom of
| the rottenness yet, but far enough that the
drag.net caught Jewett, the Democratic leader
OF the Bourbon hosts OF the House. who it
seems, has been doing a thriving business in
| pardon brokerage
Liberty Herald: The Democratic scoundrels
who have had charge of the benevolent and penal
institutions of this State and have plundered the
State and brutally mistreated the helpless in
mates OF these institutions ought to be prose
cuted TO the full extent of the law.
Jacksonville News (Dem.): The Democratic
party owes it to the people to punish the warden
| and directors OF the Prison South If law can
| reach them. It was intrusted with the care of
this institution and it cannot excuse itself if it
permits unfatnful servants to 60 UNPUBLISHED.
Greenfield Republican: Had the investiga-
| ton now going on at Indianapolis and Jefferson
! vile been begun prior to the late election, the
| Repub can majority the State ticket would
have been somewhere from 80, 900 to 60, 600. We
| make our estimate from expressions made by
| honest Democrats in this county
| Warsaw Times: Coupling the exposures in
the ushern prison with those made in the man
agement of the State Insane Hospital, the con
cluson is inevitable that the Democrats who
| have charge of the penal and benevolent institu
tons of Indiana have used them solely for gain
| through dishonest and corrupt practices.
Mishawaka Enterprise The damnable state
| of affairs at the southern prison coming on tor
| of an equally disgraceful condition Of things al
| the State Insane Asylum, as well ms the recent
| scandal at the Soldiers Orphans Home al
Knghtstown. call loudly for the immediate re-
moval of partisan control in all State institu
tons.
Lawrence Mail: IF. after the development:
which have been made with reference to the
management of the State institutions, the PEG
pie of Indiana We're to still vote TO ntrust the
Democratic party with control of public affairs
it would DO ar: almost unanswerabie argument
against the capacity of the people for self-gov
eminent.
North Manchester Journal: The stealing oil
$75. 900 from the prison fund is bad. but the
feeding OF the unfortunate ones at the asylum
on diseased and rotten food, that those in TIT
, management might pocket the difference be
tween that kind of food and wholesome food, il
a crime that Imprisonment alone would not al
equately punish.
t Huntington Herad The recent disclosure
in regard to the defalcation the southern pris
on tho cruel treatment and wretched state o
affairs at the 1nsauce Asylum. attest the wis
{ dom of the plank i'll the Republican platform
/. which insisted that the control of these institu
tons should be removed from the domains O
craftsmanship control.
SEYMOUR Republican: With the prison expos
tearing tn Democracy fore and aft, the Insan
, Hospital inquiry adding its weight to the gen
: eral distress, and now the action OF the Senate
. in not knowing when it IS completely outlawed
one may be ,pardoned for asking what more i
needed to bury the party from the sight of me-
: save an election day.
Terre Haute Gazette Probably the stealing
of half the prisoners in the penitentary do nc
aggregate as much as exWarden Howard ha
! stolen, and if he should escape punishment
would be difficult to persuade the prisoners tina
{ there was any fairness or justice ia the laws @
Indiana. Everything demands that he b
. promptly dealt with and punished
8 Kentland Gazette: The persons who hav
converted the southern prison into hell ho,t
! have robbed the State, shamefully betrayed an
a degraded public trust, embezzled. misapprt
D prated public funds, profited by contracts an
o purchases in violation of law, swindled the pri:
9 oners, kept false accounts and made false RI
/. ports, should be vigorously prosecuted and pun
i ished.
4 New Castle Courier: It is no source of pleasur
u to Republicans to witness the rottenness and Co
y ruption that has followed Democratic manage
4 ment of public trusts in Indiana. 1t would
far more comfortable to think that there wer
: two great parties in the country that are capao
of conducting public affairs honestly and wei
than it is to know that there Is but one, and tn;
, one temporarily out of power